Don’t let this happen to you: You take your family to Yellowstone and point out to your daughter up ahead a large animal. “Look, little Clementine! It’s a buffalo!” But your daughter has been watching ...

The American bison, or American buffalo as they are commonly called, were once close to extinction. Their numbers dropped from 30-60 million to around 500 because of overhunting in the 19th century.

This wasn’t the first time I doubted Ken Burns could make a subject interesting. The first time was when a friend urged me to watch the documentarian’s 1994 series Baseball. Though I took a mild, ...

Rosalyn R. LaPier served as an advisor and was interviewed for the PBS documentary film "The American Buffalo". The American bison, or American buffalo as they are commonly called, were once close to ...